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In the West Indies, Barbados in particular, in the parish of Christ Church at Oistin’s Bay, a story of hauntings at a crypt for the local well to do has been around since the early 1800s. What lends credence to this story is the fact that the governor of the time, while trying to prove the haunting false, managed to prove it true, and it is well documented that way.

The crypt in question was on the side of a hill, on a coral bed, and the crypt itself was made of coral. It’s primary occupants were members of the family of one Thomas Chase, known for his severe cruelty to anyone who angered him. Indeed, two of the “dancing coffins” in the crypt were his children, one who starved herself to death, and one, a baby, that was reportedly killed when her father went into a fit of rage. Thomas himself was eventually an occupant of the tomb as well. And the haunting? Well, it seems that every time they opened the crypt to add a coffin, all the other coffins were off their shelves, standing on their ends. Acording to the governor’s documentation, this happened even after ALL access points were sealed off and new locks were installed. Eventually, the governor got enough, and all of the bodies were removed and buried elsewhere, in varied locations, at which time we assumed the haunting stopped, as there were no more caskets left to dance.

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